Piramide Cestia

The Piramide Cestia is a tomb built in 12 BC for the magistrate Gaius Cestius of the Roman Empire, located in Rome, Italy.

History
The giant tomb was built in 18 and 12 BCE for Gaius Cestius who was both a magistrate and member of the Roman religious corporation known as Septemviri Epulonum, which was in charge of creating religious feasts for the gods. During the construction of the Aurelian Walls between 271 and 275, the pyramid was built into the bulwark, forming a triangular bastion in an effort to cut costs on the snowballing wall project. The faces of the pyramid were far steeper than its Egyptian ancestors, attributed to erroneous sketches of the Egyptian pyramids which acted as the chief reference for its construction.